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Thomas Gainsborough BiographyEnglish Rococo artist Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-88). English painter of portraits, landscapes, and fancy pictures, one of the most individual geniuses in British art. |
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Thomas Gainsborough was born at Sudbury, Soffolk, and went to London in about 1740,
probably studying with the French engraver
Gravelot. he returned to Sudbury in 1748 and
in 1752 Thomas Gainsborough set up as a portrait painter at Ipswitch.
Gainsborough painting at this time consisted
mainly of heads and half length, but he also
painted some small Gainsborough portrait groups in
landscape settings which are the most
lyrical of all English conversation pieces (Heneage
Lloyd and his Sister, Fitzwilliam,
Cambridge). His patrons were the merchants
of the town and the neighboring squires, but
when in 1759 Thomas Gainsborough painter moved to Bath, his new
sitters were members of Society, and he developed a free and elegant mode of
painting seen at its most characteristic in
full-length Gainsborough portraits (Mary, Countess Howe,
Kenwood House, London, c.1763-64). Famous oil paintings sale and Rococo
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| Gainsborough sometimes said that while portraiture was his profession landscape painting was his pleasure, and he continued to paint landscapes long after he had left a country neighborhood. Thomas Gainsborough produced many landscape drawings, some in pencil, some in charcoal and chalk, and the painter occasionally made drawings which he varnished. He also, in later years, painted fancy pictures of pastoral subjects (Peasant Girl Gathering Sticks, Manchester City Art Gallery, 1782). Thomas Gainsborough style had diverse sources. |
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Early Gainsborough paintings show the influence of French
engraving and of Dutch landscape painting;
at Bath change of Gainsborough portrait style owed
much to a close study of
van Dyck
(his admiration is most clear in The Blue
Boy, Huntingdon Art Gallery, San Marino,
1770); and in his later landscapes (The
Watering Place, National Gallery, London,
1777) Thomas Gainsborough is sometimes influenced by
Rubens. But
he was an independent and original genius,
able to assimilate to his own ends what
he learnt from others, and
he relied always
mainly on his own resources. With the
exception of his nephew Gainsborough Dupont,
he had no assistants and unlike most of his
contemporaries he never employed a drapery
painter. He was in many ways the antithesis of Reynolds. Whereas Reynolds was sober-minded and the complete professional, Thomas Gainsborough painter (even though his output was prodigious) was much more easy-going and often overdue with his commissions, writing that `painting and punctuality mix like oil and vinegar'. |
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Although he was an entertaining letter-writer, Gainsborough, unlike Reynolds, had no interest in literary or historical themes, his great passion outside painting being music (his friend William Jackson the composer wrote that Thomas Gainsborough `avoided the company of literary men, who were his aversion... he detested reading'). He and Reynolds had great mutual respect, however; Thomas Gainsborough painter asked for Reynolds to visit him on his deathbed, and Reynolds paid posthumous tribute to his rival in his Fourteenth Discourse. Recognizing the fluid brilliance of Thomas Gainsborough paintings, Reynolds praised `his manner of forming all the parts of a picture together', and wrote of `all those odd scratches and marks' that `by a kind of magic, at a certain distance... seem to drop into their proper places'. | ||||||
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